Category Archives: ruby

Behavior Driven Development

Posted on October 11, 2007 by peter

Some months ago I visited Aslak Hellesøys’ RSpec presentation at RubyEnRails 2007. I was really intrigued by some of the concepts introduced by RSpec. After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my … Continue reading →

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RubyEnRails 2007

Posted on June 7, 2007 by peter

Today I visited the (free) RubyEnRails 2007 conference. Although my day job doesn’t include any Ruby or Rails at the moment I keep hoping that is will in the (near) future. During weekends and evenings I use Rails for small … Continue reading →

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Finalist wins second place in RAD contest

Posted on April 27, 2007 by peter

Finalist managed to reach the second place in the ‘Development Tools’ content using Ruby on Rails. More about this on our corporate website here (Dutch). I think this is an excellent achievement and like to congratulate Remco and Michiel on … Continue reading →

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Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?

Posted on February 11, 2007 by peter

Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo’s new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future. Normally I would just forget about … Continue reading →

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JRuby evening @ Stroom Hotel Rotterdam

Posted on December 20, 2006 by peter

Yesterday evening I went to the JRuby talk organized by Finalist at the Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. The presentation (by JRuby gurus Charles O. Nutter and Tom Enebo) was quite similar to the presentation they gave at Javapolis but with … Continue reading →

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Reminder: JRuby talk tomorrow!

Posted on December 18, 2006 by peter

(blatant but really important clone from remvee) Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a … Continue reading →

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Rails update…

Posted on August 13, 2006 by peter

The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the ‘mandatory’ 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost. Couldn’t get it to work at all, and no sensible … Continue reading →

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Major security flaw in Rails?

Posted on August 9, 2006 by peter

Just after writing my previous post I noticed the following post on one of my incoming RSS feeds: Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch (and more) From the article: This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very … Continue reading →

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Spring MVC and JRuby controllers

Posted on August 9, 2006 by peter

While going through some Spring 2.0 documentation on using dynamic languages in combination with Spring I noticed an example of a Spring MVC controller written in Groovy. I fiddled arround with it a bit, the refreshable bean feature makes it … Continue reading →

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Rad Race / Development Tools 2006 & Ruby

Posted on April 3, 2006 by peter

Last week the results of the Rad Race where published, and guess what… the Finalist ruby team managed to finish second! Go Ruby! These results convinced our managing director to officially start a series of training sessions. More info can … Continue reading →

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